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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1975-10-02

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1975-10-02, page 01

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VOL. 53 NO. 41
OCTOBER 2,1975 -TISHREI27
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Hlti-Lateral Meeting
Hunger Strike For Soviet Prisoners
NEW YORK— Sylvia Zalmanson, a former prisoner herself, begins a hunger strike on behalf of her husband Edward Kuznetsov and other prisoners in Soviet labor camps at the Isaiah Wall opposite United Nations headquarters in New York.
Just before beginning her hunger strike, Ms. Zalmanson described the harsh conditions in the labor camps at a Simchat Torah "Festival of Freedom," sponsored by the Greater New .York Conference on Soviet Jewry. "A total lack of medical treatment, severe cold, a near starvation diet and constant exposure to other prisoners, mostly former Nazis, degenerates and informers," was heri description -of " the Mvay "Soviet Jewish prisoners are forjeed toJiye.in,„ labor camps in the U.S.S.R.
Ms. Zalmanson was released from prion in mid-1973 after widespread protests in the West. She, her husband, and two brothers were convicted of attempting to hijack a plane in an aborted effort to escape from the Soviet Union.
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UNITED NATIONS
(WNS) - Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger has
declared that the United
States will begin discussions
on the reopening of the
Geneva conference on the
Mideast as well as "explore
possibilities for perhaps a
more informal multi-lateral
meeting to assess conditions
and to discuss the future."
His remarks were made to
the United Nations General
Assembly which opened its
30th annual policy debate.
Kissinger's suggestion for a
multi-lateral meeting was
seen by observers in
Washington as a means of
bringing the Palestinians,
perhaps even the Palestine
Liberation Organization,
into the talks. In his UN
address, Kissinger stressed
-that the Israel-Egyptian
agreement in the Sinai
created an opportunity for
further progress "but
opportunities must be seized
or they will disappear." He
said the U.S. is "prepared to
, make a. .serious, effort
countries have held parallel views that the situation in the Middle East poses grave dangers and that partial steps must be part of and
just and durable peace in the Mideast requires meeting the concerns and interests of all countries in the area, including their territorial
contribute to progress \ integrity, their right to live toward a comprehensive / in peace and security and the
settlement." He said discussions have begun with the Soviet Union toward that end. Kissinger said the role of the IJN is essential in the Mideast noting that UN troops have become indispensable to the disengagementv agreements in the Sinai and the Golan Heights. He stressed that/a
legitimate interest of the Palestinians.
Kissinger's speech drew a favorable reaction from Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog. He told a gathering of Jewish leaders that he was pleased with the "strong measure of American leadership" enunciated in the address and hopes the
American representatives at the UN would maintain this "new look."
" Soviet Foreign-Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, in his Assembly address was .moderate in tone and he criticized but did not attack either the U.S. or Israel. Gromyko said the Soviet Union wants the Geneva conference reconvened with the participation of all parties concerned, including the PLO. He declared that "to establish a just and lasting peace in the Middle
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encourage negotiations between Syria and Israel." He also noted that despite "important differences" between the U.S. and the Soviet Union "our two
WASHINGTON (JTA) - The second Egyptian-Israeli Sinai accord and U.S. commitments associated with it occupied the attention of the Senate Foreign Relations and the House Armed Services Committee Sept. 24. In addition, a military contract with Saudi to-';A2rabia of nearly $1.5 billion
was before the Senate panel. The Egyptian Ambassador, Ashraf Ghorbal, testified at the House meeting for about 90 minutes behind closed doors. The Congressmen
reportedly were seek¬ ing more information on Egyptian - American understandings stemming from the accord, particularly U.S. military assistance to Cairo reportedly favored by the Administration, once the Israeli withdrawal is . completed. Ghorbal's appearance was highly unusual. Congressional observers said they could not remember a previous occasion when a foreign ambassador 'appeared
Imprisonment Is The Price For Immigration
By David Friedman
NEW YORK (JTA) - "Imprisonment is the price for immigration to Israel." This is the way Shimon Grilius, a 30-year-old Vilna- born electronics engineer, on Sept. 23 summed up his five years of hard labor in Soviet prisons. Grilius, the first' Orthodox Jewish "Prisoner of Conscience" to emigrate to Israel, received especially harsh treatment when he tried to observe kashrut, the Shabbat and other religious laws in prison. He is now in • New York to spend a month . as the first "Hero-in- Residence" under a program sponsored by the
sponsored by the GNYCSJ. Nearly 1000 people braved the rainy weather to attend the demonstration. Many of them marched to the Isaiah Wall opposite the United Nations where Zalmanson began a hunger strike in support of her husband, Eduard Kuznetsov and the other "Prisoners of Conscience." Individuals and organizations were expected to join her as she appears before the Isaiah Wall from 8 a.m. to 8 p.ni. daily.' Kuznetsov, who was sentenced in Dec.. 1970 in the first Leningrad trial, is still serving a 15-year sentence. . Grilius stressed that the cause of prisoners and the
Greater New York Jewish activists and Conference on. Soviet Jewry emigration are all part of the
and the.Board of Jewish2 Education. During, the month he will speak.. at Jewish schools in the daytime arid before adult groups in 2 the, evening. Speaking in •Hebrew;-GriiiuS was interviewed before he arid another .. former "Prisoner of, Conscience," Sylvia Zalmanson, participated in a.Siriiqhat Torah ' 2. "Festival of Freedom" in front of the New York Public Library
- same -issue. He said Jews should seek the freedom not only of the 'TOCs" but of all Jews in the Soviet Union. He
"said, the fact < that he,
. Zalmanson and others are in Israel and are able to come
-to the .United States to seek help ;f or other Jews is "a
• miracle of God but God also expects us to help in his miracles." He.said he'has learned that-Jews'are hot
' people of separate nations
. but are all one, and that
when one Jew suffers all Jews must come to his defense. The young engineer was arrested on July 21,1969 in Raizan in central Russia along with several other young Jews at the University of Raizan,, an engineering school, because they had been seeking to emigrate since 1966. Grilius noted that he and others had gone to, Raizan because quotas for Jews made it impossible to go to universities near their homes; The charge was anti- Soviet activities.: Grilius said the only evidence presented by the authorities was that he had a record called "The Diary of the Six-Day War." He said another piece of evidence was an article written by Yuri Vudka, the only one of the students who was Orthodox before imprisonment, arguing that Jews had a right to emigrate to Israel on the basis of a return to their national homeland. This was written • in 1966, a year before the major drive for aliya, which was spurred by the Six-Day War, began. Grilius, who said he was raised as a traditional not a religious Jew, noted that both his grandfather and father had
been imprisoned under Stalin for wanting to remain Jews. His grandfather was subsequently killed by the Nazis in Lithuania."
Grilius spent two years in the Putma Labor camp and three years in Perm, all of them under strict regime.
He suffered the same harsh treatment that other Jewish prisoners did, including the indignity of sharing quarters with former Nazis. But for the religious prisoners it was even harsher, he said. He related that they tried to
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before a committee' of Congress. The Committee heard Israel's views last week from its Defense Minister, Shimon Peres, but at an informal breakfast meeting. In the, Senate committee, Sens. Clifford Case (R. NJ) and Jacob K. Javits (R. NY) proposed that Congress vote on secret U.S. undertakings to Egypt and Israel as well as on the stationing of 200 American technicians in Sinai. It is ■ designed, sources at the Capitol said, to help speed the Sinai accord to a Senate vote by incorporating in a resolution ' of approval information summarizing all the U.S. undertakings. At present the Administration does not seek a vote on anything except the technicians.
Meanwhile, President Ford warned Congressional leaders Sept. 25 that the Sinai pact could be
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"This year, as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Columbus j Jewish Federation, our Annual Meeting is designed to reflect on the condition of the
, Edward Schlezinger
American Jewish community in 1976, and to relate that present state to the role of Jews in the United States, and particularly in Columbus, during the past 50
years and longer," said
Edward Schlezinger,
Chairman of the Annual
Meeting Committee of the
Col'.mbus Jewish
Federation, in urging
community attendance at
the Federation's Annual
Meeting on Sunday Evening,
,Oct. 5. "Theentire focus of
our meeting this year," said
■ Mr. Schlezinger, "is on
history. Our keynote
-speaker, a distinguished
former resident of our own
community, Dr. Eugene B.
Borowitz, will speak on the
American Jew: A Historical
.Perspective. Our meeting
will feature an exhibit on the
•life of the Columbus Jewish
community, and all of the
■features of our meeting are
designed to relate to our
history."
. The meeting will include
special recognition of the families of the members of the founding - board of directors of the Columbus
' Jewish Federation (then called United Jewish Fund) and their foresight in building a structure which
"lasted for a half century.
. Recognition will be paid to the past presidents of the
■ United Jewish Fund, the United Jewish Fund and
• Council, the Jewish Community Council and the
' Columbus Federation, aU of . whom have played a major
role in bringing the .organized Jewish
community of Columbus to
• where it is today.
"It is particularly ' appropriate," said Sidney I. Blatt, President of the Columbus Jewish.
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